Quantitative Cell Science

Quantitative Cell Science December 13, 2022

Bringing physics to life:
Upcoming Biohub conference will merge physics and biology

When scientist Rachel Banks signed up for a course in biophysics as an undergraduate, she had no idea what to expect. Banks, and most people she knew, considered biology and physics to be worlds apart — she couldn’t imagine how the two would mix. But as ...

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Quantitative Cell Science September 14, 2022

Calling all LEGO builders! Put your skills to use assembling a light-sheet microscope

When Chan Zuckerberg Biohub scientists published a paper earlier this year on a new light-sheet microscope they had built – a tool called DaXi, which can capture a space about 18 times larger than existing single-objective light-sheet microscopes – their ...

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Quantitative Cell Science September 1, 2022

Biohub scientist wins ‘Innovation in Research’ award for distinguished contributions to cell biology

Manuel Leonetti, leader of the Intracellular Architecture group in the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub’s Quantitative Cell Science initiative, has been awarded the Innovation in Research Award from the American Society for Cell Biology (ACSB), a distinction that ...

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Quantitative Cell Science August 2, 2022

What New Cell Biology Can AI Reveal Just by Looking at Images? A Lot!

Humans are good at looking at images and finding patterns or making comparisons. Look at a collection of dog photos, for example, and you can sort them by color, by ear size, by face shape, and so on. But could you compare them quantitatively? And perhaps ...

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